[Vision2020] Ah Lord, with trembling I confess

Mon Sep 20 08:22:10 PDT 2004

Captain Kirker, Other Normal Folks,

Thank you Captain Kirker for continuing to expose the gross hypocrisy, 
dishonesty, and the dangerous mental health problems of Christ Church Cult 
Master Douglas Wilson.

It is revealing that the Cult Master places himself above John Wesley for two 
reasons:

1.    The Cult Master's own hypocrisy dwarfs that of Wesley's because he appears 
to pathologically justify it to himself and to his ovine, gullish followers 
under the pseudo-religious doctrines of Covenantal Dishonesty, Covenantal 
Plagiarism, and Covenantal Hypocrisy.  Such practices are most charitably 
described as religious con-artistry.  Such practices are not uncommonly used by 
others of the Cult Master's ilk -- megalomaniacal, egomaniacal sufferers from 
burning self-doubt trying to constantly reassure themselves.

2.    John Wesley was a figure of some importance in the development of 
Protestantism.  The Cult Master will never be.  His venomous and/or asinine 
tracts will eventually die a yellow death in the rears of some seldom frequented 
used book stores, as lining for various kinds of fowl or pet cages, as furniture 
leg shims, or used as ballast for soon to be scrapped harbor tugs and barges. 
References to his work in other places will be limited to use as examples of 
ego-driven, purulent, amateur scholarship gone hopelessly and morally awry;  his 
works it will be cited either as inane, inept ego-sops or, more accurately, as 
cesspool, pseudo-religious scholarship.

Perhaps, Captain Kirker, after exposing the Cult Master in part for what he is 
as an author and thinker, you might now turn your attention to reporting on the 
problems of spousal and child abuse in the cult.  Perhaps your reports could 
help could lead to an inner-cult revolt and the seeking of help from counselors 
and law enforcement by the abused wives and children.  It might also lead to 
some not-so-surprising arrests for obstruction of justice.

Judging by some of the high-culties and cultie tools that he surrounds himself 
with and the non-culties he so cleverly uses to pursues his anti-secular, 
a-kingdom-for-myself goals, the Cult Master is also a proctologist wanna-be.

Wayne

Art Deco  (Wayne Fox)
deco at moscow.com

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Captain Kirker
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com
  Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 9:34 AM
  Subject: [Vision2020] Ah Lord, with trembling I confess

  Visionheads:

  Continuing with our thread devoted to exposing the Wolfman's hypocrisy, I 
would like to review my previous posts to keep this in context. In 1991 the 
Wolfman wrote an essay condemning the well-known evangelist John Wesley for a 
number of sins, and in 2001 he republished it as an appendix to a book that is 
required reading in his Greyfriars Hall ministerial program. We have already 
observed that the Wolfman posthumously disqualified Wesley from serving in the 
Christian ministry because of his plagiarism and his sloppy academics; and we 
have noted with excruciating detail how the Wolfman has done the exact same 
thing that he nailed Wesley for, i.e., plagiarism and sloppy academics.

  Now I want to observe a third category of sin that the Wolfman condemned in 
John Wesley, and once again observe how he shares Wesley's guilt in this matter. 
Today we shall consider slander. However, before I proceed, let me make two 
comments.

  First, by this point in his essay, the Wolfman felt comfortable enough with 
his indictment of Wesley that he no longer argued against him as a minister. No, 
he began arguing against his reputed place in Church history. And second, in his 
analysis, the Wolfman conflated misrepresentation, libel, and (perhaps) forgery 
with slander; while these four may overlap, they are not necessarily synonymous.

  In "Wrestling With Wesley," the Wolfman wrote:

    "In 1769, a young man named Augustus Toplady ("Rock of Ages") published a 
book entitled The Doctrine of Absolute Predestination Stated and Asserted. . . . 
In a polemical response, John Wesley took the liberty of abridging the book down 
to tract size, to which he attached the following ending:

      "'The sum of all is this: One in twenty (suppose) of mankind are elected; 
nineteen in twenty are reprobated. The elect shall be saved, do what they will; 
the reprobate will be damned, do what they can. Reader believe this, or be 
damned. Witness my hand,

      "A.......T.......'

    "The problem was that Augustus Toplady ('A.T.') had written no such thing. 
In this paragraph, Wesley was not only guilty of a grossly inaccurate summary of 
Toplady's thinking, he attempted to represent that inaccurate summary as Toplady's 
own words. This is evident through the misleading and slanderous use of 
'witness my hand.'" (Wolfman, Greyfriars Covenant: Essays on Evangelism & 
Apologetics [Moscow, ID: Greyfriars Hall Press, 2001] 172, 173)

  Let there be no illusion: John Wesley could have graduated with honors from 
the Dan Rather School of Documentation. When in doubt, just make it up. But the 
important point is that, in an effort to smear Toplady, Wesley fabricated a 
document out of thin air and attached Toplady's name to it, representing that he 
wrote it.

  Jumping ahead to 2003, last year the members of Christ Church learned that in 
1993 the Kirk elders tried to remove the Wolfman from the ministry, and instead 
of admitting the truth, the Wolfman manufactured a letter dated December 17, 
1993, exonerating himself of wrongdoing, and he affirmed that the church elders 
signed this letter when in fact it bore no signatures at all. Moreover, the 
Wolfman published this bald-faced lie-both the contents of the letter and the 
names of those whom he said signed it-on the worldwide web. And true to form, 
the Wolfman kept it on the web even after he privately admitted its fraudulency. 
The Wolfman did the very same thing to one of his fellow ministers that Wesley 
did to Toplady by forging his name to a bogus document.

  Commenting on Wesley's fraud, the Wolfman wrote:

    "But how are these events interpreted? . . . Perhaps, and I speak with some 
hesitancy, he spoke this way about Wesley because Wesley was not honest. The 
hesitancy comes from the knowledge that those who raise questions such as this 
do so at their own peril. If a man calls popular and universal judgments into 
question, he had better be prepared for the reaction. And part of the 
preparation consists in knowing that whether you have proven your case has 
nothing at all to do with the anticipated reaction. The saintliness of someone 
like John Wesley is not something many Christians are prepared to question. But 
perhaps is it necessary to rethink some of our assumptions, i.e. perhaps John 
Wesley was not quite the saint he is portrayed to be in popular evangelical 
histories of that ! era. . . . This is a plea against distortions of history. . 
. In this case, I believe there has been a whitewash of history, and I believe 
the interests of truth demand that we all quit playing the game." (Ibid., 174, 
175)

  Memo to the Wolfman:

  I speak not with hesitancy. You have not been honest. The interest of truth 
requires that you quit playing games. Admit it. You whitewashed history. Your 
dirty hands forged a letter to make yourself appear righteous, and you got 
caught. Confess your sin. Make restitution. Resign from the ministry at once, so 
that you may sing:

  Ah Lord, with trembling I confess,
  A gracious soul may fall from grace;
  The salt may lose its seasoning power,
  And never, never, find it more.

  Lest that my fearful case should be,
  Each moment knit my soul to thee;
  And lead me to the mount above,
  Through the low vale of humble love.

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